Prorogue This!

It started out with a suggestion from one of Sandy's posters that we needed a truth ad about prorogation, because the MSM was talking about it being from 4 months to 2 months in length. Then the call went out to citizen journalists to round up some links to video, newspaper articles, and even anyone who knew how to photo shop pictures.

I want to thank everyone who got in the spirit and sent all kinds of links/pictures and suggestions. I especially want to thank Sandy for helping to edit the video, she is very level headed where I tend to go off on partisan tangents. I also want to thank Don, who spent his weekend photo shopping some great pictures...some of which will be used for another project on Olympic MP's! HA!

I had tried to download HI HO HI HO, to add music to the video, but my audio program was acting up. I tried lots of "free" music sites and just couldn't find anything relevant to the video, then it struck me, PM Harper has a song! The more I thought about it, the more I liked it. The PM is singing about "needing someone to love", and the opposition are yapping about Parliament being shut down for 17 days due to proroguing, while they are on vacation. Too subtle?

So, here it is, remember, every minute you watch, takes hours to put together, and it is thanks to all of my and Sandy's posters that I had the material to work with.



I have so much material that a longer version might be possible, but for now, I hope the message is clear.....17 days is NOT 4 months or even 2 months!

Quick Quotes

Busy working on a video, and I need your help again. Give me quick one line quotes from the media about proroguing Parliament, with sources. Such as; Parliament prorogued for 4 months, or this is unconstitutional, or any other quote that got you ticked off because you knew they were stretching the truth.

Also, anybody who is good at photo shop, I still want some funny clips of Iggy skiing down a hill or Layton snorkeling. Iggy in France by the Eiffel Tower would be funny, and Jack speed skating in the Olympics would work as well.

Use your imaginations.

UPDATE: Your Assignment If You Choose To Accept It!

Sandy over at Just Politics has had a great idea (H/T Catherine), let's get together to do a Truth Video, maybe called "The Prorogation Myths". So I am asking you to send me links to videos and radio broadcasts about proroguing Parliament both in favour or not, send me video links about the Afghanistan detainee affair and anything else you think has skewed the Conservative message on proroguing. Blatant bias by the media is good, newspaper quotes by MP's would be great.

What I ask is that you pre-screen the videos and articles for me. In other words, if it's a 9:00 minute video, tell me what segment to go to (ie watch from 3:00 to 3:20) so that I can cut down on the hours I spend editing these videos to get to the good stuff.

This gives everyone a chance to participate, not just comment on a blog. It's a Friday night, all the reporters have gone home for the weekend, so it's our turn to take over the communications industry. Look for interesting sources, like the House of Commons videos, are there any way back when Chretien was PM and he prorogued? How about the Hansards, anything good in those from way back when? Dig it up people, and send me what you find, what else are you doing tonight? HA! Citizen journalists, have fun!

UPDATE: Some great ideas are being discussed. One of the things I am not good at is photo shopping. So I would like you to put your talents to work and give me some photo shopped pictures of Iggy in France and Layton snorkeling in ?? and any other creative images you can think of, like MP's at the Olympics while the house is prorogued. Leave in comments or if you are shy, leave at my email hunterinalberta@hushmail.com.